Bassam Tabbara
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Ceph is now installed from deb packages instead of being built from source. This results in larger images sizes (roughly 60MB increase compressed) but the maintenance and build burden is reduced. Future versions of ceph will hopefully optimize for image size. All support for building native code in containers has been removed, as it is no longer needed. When we add other backends we will assume that they can be installed using apt-get too.
What is Rook?
Rook is an open source orchestrator for distributed storage systems running in cloud native environments.
Rook turns distributed storage software into a self-managing, self-scaling, and self-healing storage services. It does this by automating deployment, bootstrapping, configuration, provisioning, scaling, upgrading, migration, disaster recovery, monitoring, and resource management. Rook uses the facilities provided by the underlying cloud-native container management, scheduling and orchestration platform to perform its duties.
Rook integrates deeply into cloud native environments leveraging extension points and providing a seamless experience for scheduling, lifecycle management, resource management, security, monitoring, and user experience.
Rook is currently in alpha state and has focused initially on orchestrating Ceph on-top of Kubernetes. Ceph is a distributed storage system that provides file, block and object storage and is deployed in large scale production clusters. Rook plans to add support for other storage systems beyond Ceph and other cloud native environments beyond Kubernetes in future releases. See our roadmap for more details.
Getting Started and Documentation
For installation, deployment, and administration, see our Documentation.
Contributing
We welcome contributions. See Contributing to get started.
Report a Bug
For filing bugs, suggesting improvements, or requesting new features, please open an issue.
Contact
Please use the following to reach members of the community:
- Slack: Join our slack channel
- Forums: rook-dev
- Twitter: @rook_io
- Email: info@rook.io
Licensing
Rook is under the Apache 2.0 license.